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Why The Media Has Been Wrong About YouTube Networks

Both Sides of the Table

For much of 2013 I watched the press write articles about how the YouTube “MCNs” (multi-channel networks) were doomed and tried to square that with the data I was watching at the one I invested in, Maker Studios, who has had one hell of a year. So can you successfully build a YouTube network?

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5 Ways Writing a Book Will Kick-Start Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

In addition, the discipline of producing it, like writing a business plan, will help you immensely in understanding the key elements that drive you and your business. I often hear the excuse that writing a book takes precious time away from building and running your business, which you cannot afford.

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Why You Need to Take 50 Coffee Meetings

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It should stick in your head as a metaphor for networking. The moment a big job is advertised you’re fawked. Help them write other stories. One day they’ll write yours. 50 coffee meetings. For getting outside of your comfort zone. For starting relationships today that won’t pay off for a year.

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Interview with Vince Bianco, Newsforce

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San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. Tell us a little bit about Newsforce?

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. As the mobile ecosystem has grown the industrialized world is now carrying a mini computer in their pocket that is connected to a cellular network. PHONE CALLS.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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The following was available: “I kept hearing about startups that raised VC funding, but which hadn’t filed Form Ds (nor issued a press release). Users participate by performing tasks, taking surveys or watching advertiser videos. Addressable advertisements are capable of being targeted to the individual household.

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23 Startup Tips From Oprah Winfrey

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Her show’s local success led to a meeting in Los Angeles with several ABC network executives. The network owned Oprah’s AM Chicago show, as it was created under the auspices of her contract with WLS. However, Oprah’s healthy balance of humility and self-confidence caused her to be undaunted by the network executives’ poor judgment.

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